A senior officer said: ‘The girl was bleeding profusely. Doctors at the hospital have said that her condition is serious.’

After discovering an abandoned mobile phone near the child, officers were able to trace it back to the suspect.

He added: ‘The police team was helped by the recovery of the mobile phone to track the location of the accused. We traced him to the labour camp.’ The cops say the accused man lived with other workers in the building and that he admitted that he took the child around 10pm.

The officer said: ‘He said he then took her to the bushes beside a drain and raped her for nearly two hours.’